The influence of tropical Indian Ocean SST on the Indian summer monsoon

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3083-3105

  Cherchi, Annalisa ^a   Gualdi, Silvio ^a   Behera, Swadhin ^b   Luo, Jing Jia ^b   Masson, Sebastien ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^c   Navarra, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; OCEAN VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 34547096475     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4161.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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